Chapter 11 american history homework.

The North was against slavery and industry was their source of economy. The South was pro slavery and agriculture was their source of economy.
The emancipation proclamation freed slaves that in the Confederate states.
The battle of Gettysburg was a turning point in the war for the Union. The victory motivated the Union troops to fight on.
The North won the war because they set up blockades to cut off the South's supplies, the industry helped make required supplies and the north had a bigger population which made a bigger army for the war.

Blockade is when a navy doesn't allow boats to get into the enemy ports.
Anaconda Plan was a strategy used by the north to starve the south by using the blockade system.
Contraband is supplies that are captured from the enemy during a war.
Emancipation Proclamation was a law that freed slaves living in the confederate states.
Siege is when an enemy is surrounded and all supplies are cut off to make them surrender.
Total War is when an army attacks the economic and civilian resources that support the enemy.
13th Amendment outlawed slavery in the United States.
McClellan was a army general for the Union.
Ulysses S Grant was another army general for the Union and the 18th president of the United States.
Robert E Lee was a general for the Confederate States.
Stonewall Jackson was another army general for the Confederate states, he became a hero for wining the battle of Bull Run.
54th Massachusetts Regiment was a all black army regiment.
William Tecumseh Sherman was another Union army general that had a great reputation with using total war.
Mathew Brady was a journalists that photographed the war and showed them to the public.
John Wilkes Booth assassinated Abraham Lincoln.


Connection to today
This chapter in american history makes america a more stronger and united country.